Floating narrator bubbles
Floating narrator bubbles use AI vision to remove the background from your webcam recording. This gives you more space to show the content behind you, and opens up some new customization options. For example, partial backgrounds which give you a splash of brand color (just in time for the brand kit update) while keeping the presentation in the spotlight. You can see one of these examples in the embedded story above.
Keep in mind: This customization requires a little bit of processing before the preview reflects in the editor. If you recorded via the Mac App, the results will be almost instant. Otherwise, you'll see the floating version available around a minute after recording stops — and yes, that will get much faster soon.
Brand Kit
Workspaces can now set brand colors and images in one place, then use them across all stories. Previously, you had to hunt down the exact color and upload branded backgrounds on each story you made separately. Manage your brand kit from the sidebar to add colors, logos, and backgrounds. These will be available for everyone in your workspace to use in future stories, and also change the default appearance of your share links — buttons, logo, etc.
Improved
Recordings with cursor tracking (via Mac app), automatic zooms will now follow the mouse as it moves.
Story view counts are now visible from My Stories and board overviews for quick reference. You can also sort
Share links now feature a more mobile-friendly layout
Overhauled transcripts, with better design and navigation on playback pages.
Redesigned editor filmstrip and timeline controls to provide clearer context and navigation as you scrub through the story.
Share pages now support keyboard navigation between chapters via arrows, and stop/start via spacebar.
Boards now include automatic preview images when shared on social, or other places where links unfurl
These are just some of the dozens of improvements from this month's releases, and you can discover the rest in the app.
